Japan,–Old And New (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
The son of a Japanese lord am I,--A Prince of the olden time;My hair is white, though black as nightIn ...
The son of a Japanese lord am I,--A Prince of the olden time;My hair is white, though black as nightIn ...
Hear the singing on the boats,As they halt beside the pier!Ah, those fresh Italian throats, How they cheer!Yet the words they ...
"Forward, comrades, ever forward"!Shout the leaders in the fight;"Scale the ramparts! Plant the standardOn the citadel of light!"Break the chains ...
Were you ever told the legend oldOf the birth of storms at sea?You should hear the tale in a Channel ...
"I will gain a fortune," the young man cried;"For Gold by the world is deified;Hence, whether the means be foul ...
Shrine of my mind, my Library!Each morn I greet thee with delight,When, soul-refreshed, I bring to theeThe benediction of the ...
O Buddha, of the mystic smileAnd downcast, dreamful eyes,To whom unnumbered sacred shrinesAnd gilded statues rise,Whose fanes are filled with ...
Stately court of Fontainebleau,Nine and ninety years agoOn thy spacious esplanade,Ranged in formal dress parade,Stood the Emperor's grenadiersWith their bronzed ...
_Youth_ dreams of all the years shall hold,--Of poems writ, of battles won,Of statues made, of love, of gold,And honors, ...
Through the marble gates of Ostia,Where the Tiber meets the sea,And a hundred Roman galleysStrain their leashes to be free,Streams ...
Hark! how the Orient's bells are proclaiming Obsequies strange to the shrines of the west--Services Christendom's cruelties shaming-- Taught by the merciful, ...
Beside my garden's ivied wall,Enwreathed in vines of gold and green,I stand, as evening shadows fall,And marvel at the matchless ...
In my loggia bright I watch to-nightThe full moon sailing by;From a crystal creek in a glaciered peakIt slipped to ...
San Remo's palms in beauty stand Beside the storied sea,Where azure band and golden sand Are wedded ceaselessly;For from the deep, which ...
I woke from dreams of rare delightAnd visions of a joyous land,Where loved ones, long since lost to sight,Walked blithely ...
Urge me no more! The mid-day toil is ended,And shadows lengthen from the radiant west;The glowing sun, with sumptuous clouds ...
The duel of the warring cloudsHath ended with the day;Their scintillant, electric bladesHave ceased their fearful play;The pent up fury ...
Snowy sails, silvery sails,Gleaming in the sun,Leaving scores of jewelled trailsIn the course you run,On your white wings bear awayAll ...
The sun is on the mountain crest,The sky without a cloud,The moon is slipping down the west,The robin's song is ...
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